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  1. Bug #339743
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 339743

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote : Re: [Bug 339743] [NEW] Jaunty i386 popen() misbehaves on x86_64 kernel 2.6.26

> Correct output:
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.28-8-generic
> $ ./popen-test
> popen returned 0x1ec6400
> ferror returned 0
> fread returned 19
> ferror returned 0
> pclose returned 0
> Incorrect output:
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.26-1-amd64
> $ ./popen-test
> popen returned 0x935f688
> ferror returned 0
> SHOULD NOT DISPLAY

I am confused. Your own output above shows that this works fine on the
Ubuntu Jaunty kernel. We don't need to patch Jaunty kernels to get the
right result?